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Arleth Martinez smooths her clothes, kisses a photo of her twins and leaves for work. It's only a few meters from her Colombian cell to her unusually fragrant workplace, South America's first gastronomic prison restaurant.
Inmates dressed as beauty queens pranced on a makeshift stage for a mock beauty pageant at a Philippines jail on Saturday, bringing Christmas cheer to one of the country's most overcrowded prisons.
The man groaned from the painful point of a needle as a tattoo artist pierced his arm, making way for the black ink to run under his skin.
It was once suggested to Cecile Licad and German cellist Alban Gerhardt that they should perform in Philippine prisons. The two artists liked the idea and said they were open to playing music in unlikely places.
Some people are in jail and most of us are not, that is obvious; but beneath the surface are others who are imprisoned by fear, sickness, resentment and ill will.
There’s a tall, secured gate that separates them from the rest. They all wear yellow shirts and jeans that tell outsiders that they’re not your usual kaffe klatsch group. The uniform also helps the guards pick them out in case they try to blend in with the slew of visitors in the compound.
